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Planner’s support for storing projects in databases has been rather broken for a while. I recently fixed a bug that caused Planner to crash when you tried to save over an existing project in the database (#397132), so it was once again possible to use a database for storage. There was also a problem with newer postgresql versions (#318440), but that turned out to be a bug in postgresql that has subsequently been solved in postgresql-8.2.5.

Just last week I got a request to add support for libgda-3, because some distributions were dropping support for older libgda versions. I expected this to be more or less a configure fix, but it turns out it was quite a bit more work than that.

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That I of all people would have started a blog. I won’t bore you with details of why this is atypical for me, I’ll just skip to the reasons for doing this.

For some time now I’ve been working on Gnome Planner and just last week I found myself updating the topic of #planner on GIMPNet every night to keep people informed of my progress on some requested feature. After a few of those rather short and cryptic descriptions, I decided to look for a better way to present this information: this blog.

In this blog I plan to write about what I’m working on, which is most likely to be Planner and maybe some Gentoo stuff. I’m not good at writing stories, so I’ll stick to the technical stuff. There are lots of things that this blog could do: provide insight into what Planner developers are working on or what the roadmap looks like, give prospective developers an easy way to get familiar with the project, generate more involvement from the community, etc. I have no idea if anything will come out of this, but let’s give it a try.

Tomorrow I plan to write about the stuff I’m working on at the moment: getting Planner’s database support in better shape.

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